JERETHAL
10-10-2005, 06:40 AM
I am just finishing up a script. Actually, I just finished three in the last three months. BEEN ON A TEAR!!!
I'm calling this story "Doc Sawbone" or something close to it.
It's a story set during the American Revolution about a fictional battlefield doctor.
I stumbled across some interesting facts while doing research one day. During the American Revolution when a guy got shot, the remedy was often to amputate the limb. Several men would hold you down while a "doctor" opened his "medical bag" that usually contained a butcher knife to cut flesh, a pair of wire cutters that were used to snip tendons and ligaments, and a bone saw to sawbone. No pain killer at all!
Often these "doctors" were just guys who learned how to nurse from their mothers and lied about medical training. It wasn't unusual to clean a wound by "pissing on it" and that usually happened after an amputation because water wasn't always handy. The doctor would just find a guy that needed to piss to piss on a stump after amputation or to clean dirt from wounds.
At Valley Forge, Washingtons men suffered severe frostbite. The doctor would just walk down the line of frost bitten troops and snap off blackened frost bitten appendages like pretzels. Fingers and toes were snapped off like pretzels. TALK ABOUT TOUGH!
So I decided to write a screenplay and create a fictional doctor and tell the battlefield story from that perspective.
I hope to use the story as an educational vehicle to make people "realize" the price our forefathers paid for freedom. I'd like to turn this story into a novel and if it takes off, maybe run a series like "left behind", "sherlock Holmes" and others; using "Doctor Julius "sawbone" Morgan" as the featured character.
Because I hope to inject him into real life historical events; I'd like to find a Revolutionary war buff to partner with me in this pursuit.
I was going to call the original story "Piss on it" but I figured it may cause too many trifles.
The whole point and the motivation is to educate while entertaining.
Anybody interested?
I DO want to be sure to include little known facts that many "americans" fought against our patriot forefathers and with the British. I want to show the barefoot troops trudging thru snow in the dead of winter. The quacky medical practices like bloodletting. Illness and harsh weather conditions caused more deaths than combat did. THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED.
I'm calling this story "Doc Sawbone" or something close to it.
It's a story set during the American Revolution about a fictional battlefield doctor.
I stumbled across some interesting facts while doing research one day. During the American Revolution when a guy got shot, the remedy was often to amputate the limb. Several men would hold you down while a "doctor" opened his "medical bag" that usually contained a butcher knife to cut flesh, a pair of wire cutters that were used to snip tendons and ligaments, and a bone saw to sawbone. No pain killer at all!
Often these "doctors" were just guys who learned how to nurse from their mothers and lied about medical training. It wasn't unusual to clean a wound by "pissing on it" and that usually happened after an amputation because water wasn't always handy. The doctor would just find a guy that needed to piss to piss on a stump after amputation or to clean dirt from wounds.
At Valley Forge, Washingtons men suffered severe frostbite. The doctor would just walk down the line of frost bitten troops and snap off blackened frost bitten appendages like pretzels. Fingers and toes were snapped off like pretzels. TALK ABOUT TOUGH!
So I decided to write a screenplay and create a fictional doctor and tell the battlefield story from that perspective.
I hope to use the story as an educational vehicle to make people "realize" the price our forefathers paid for freedom. I'd like to turn this story into a novel and if it takes off, maybe run a series like "left behind", "sherlock Holmes" and others; using "Doctor Julius "sawbone" Morgan" as the featured character.
Because I hope to inject him into real life historical events; I'd like to find a Revolutionary war buff to partner with me in this pursuit.
I was going to call the original story "Piss on it" but I figured it may cause too many trifles.
The whole point and the motivation is to educate while entertaining.
Anybody interested?
I DO want to be sure to include little known facts that many "americans" fought against our patriot forefathers and with the British. I want to show the barefoot troops trudging thru snow in the dead of winter. The quacky medical practices like bloodletting. Illness and harsh weather conditions caused more deaths than combat did. THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED.